Died Today: John Carradine (1906–1988)

John Carradine (1906–1988)

Born: February 5, 1906 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: November 27, 1988 (age 82) in Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Married to: Emily Cisneros (3 July 1975 – 27 November 1988) (his death)
Doris Rich (30 August 1957 – 10 December 1964) (divorced)
Sonia Sorel (13 August 1944 – 6 March 1957) (divorced) (3 children)
Ardanelle McCool (31 December 1935 – 14 March 1944) (divorced) (1 child)

[on Darryl F. Zanuck] Nobody liked working for Zanuck, the little goddamn Napoleon, always walking around with his polo mallet. Nobody had any respect for him except as an executive. And he was a good editor at one time, but he fancied himself a writer, and he was not a good writer.

[on Cecil B. DeMille] I was very fond of him. I never saw him direct an actor; his specialty was the camera. He simply hired the best actors he could get and let them do their job. He didn’t interfere with them unless something was drastically wrong. DeMille’s specialty was the camera, the pageantry.

[on John Ford] Oh, Ford was a peculiar man. You had to know how to handle him. Actors were terrified of him because he liked to terrify them. He was a sadist.

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